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DFCI Limited Applications
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DFCI Limited Applications
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Internal Funding
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI)
Claudia Adams Barr Program in Cancer Research
Innovative Basic Science Research Program
| J. Wayne and Delores B. Weaver established the Claudia Adams Barr Program in Cancer Research in 1987, in memory of Mrs. Weaver's mother, Claudia Adams Barr. The primary intent of the Claudia Adams Barr Program is to provide funding to DFCI investigators for the development of innovative basic research projects that have not yet received any external peer-reviewed grant support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or similar sources. Barr Awards are designed to support research projects that are innovative and address fundamental questions related to cancer. The request for funds should be limited to support for the initiation of the study and generation of preliminary data needed to submit grant applications for external funding. Established DFCI junior and senior investigators are encouraged to apply. Senior postdoctoral fellows who are within 1-2 years of independence and are conducting independent research on a project that has not achieved external funding in that laboratory may also apply. Only one application for a Barr Award per lab may be submitted for consideration. Labs with existing Barr awardees are eligible to apply for non-concurrent support: applications may be submitted for review and will either be deferred to the next round or, if awarded, will receive funding when the prior award is closed. Applicants who are not eligible for Barr Program funding include Scientist-track investigators and investigators below the level of independent Assistant Professor, who currently receive Career Development Awards, such as K awards. Awards are not available to investigators who already receive substantial funding from the Institute. Summaries may be sent to BARR@dfci.harvard.edu
Amount: Up to $200,000/ year for 2 years
Deadline: May 1, 2015
Dana-Farber-Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC)-National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in Brain Cancer
Career Enhancement Program Award
The Neuro-Oncology Program at DF/HCC is seeking applications for Career Enhancement Program (CEP) projects focused on adult or pediatric gliomas. Funding will be provided through the NCI-sponsored Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) mechanism. Eligible applicants are those who are in the final year of clinical fellowship or postdoctoral fellowship or are within 5 years of their first faculty appointment who hold the current rank of Instructor or Assistant Professor.
Amount: $50,000 for 1 year
Deadline: May 1, 2015
Dana-Farber-Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC)-National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in Brain Cancer
Developmental Research Program Award
The Neuro-Oncology Program at DF/HCC is seeking applications for Developmental Research Program (DRP) projects focused on adult or pediatric gliomas. Funding will be provided through the National Cancer Institute (NCI)-sponsored Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) mechanism for two awards. Applicants must be faculty members of Harvard Medical School or the Harvard School of Public Health at the level of Instructor or higher.
Amount: $50,000 for 1 year
Deadline: May 1, 2015
Harvard University
Harvard Catalyst
Health Disparities Research Program
The Harvard Catalyst Health Disparities Research Program increases the prominence and impact of research on health disparities at Harvard. This opportunity seeks to engage a broad range of basic, clinical, public health, and other investigators from across the Harvard community, and will provide seed money for cutting-edge interdisciplinary translational research to enhance understanding of fundamental biological mechanisms involved in disease conditions that disproportionately affect health disparity populations and to develop therapies or interventions that can directly or demonstrably contribute to the reduction or elimination of health disparities. Inter-disciplinary and inter-institutional collaborations are encouraged. This RFA encourages applications from junior or mid-level investigators. For junior investigators, appropriate supervision and mentoring must be provided. The proposed project must be collaborative - single-investigator projects are not responsive to the RFA. At least one co-investigator is required and there is no limit to the number of co-investigators that may be listed. While researchers may submit only one application as principal investigator, they may be listed as a co-investigator on multiple applications.
Amont: $75,000 for 1 year
Deadline: May 14, 2015
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Non-Federal Funding-Grants
Ovarian Cancer Research Fund (OCRF)
Woman to Woman Grant Program
OCRF provides support for scientific research that leads to more effective identification and treatment of ovarian cancer, and also supports related educational initiatives. Woman to Woman, which is based on an OCRF funded program at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, seeks to improve the quality of care for gynecologic cancer patients by strengthening coping capacities through a patient-to-patient support model. Woman to Woman is overseen by a trained, part-time Program Coordinator. The Program Coordinator is responsible for managing all aspects of the program, from mentor recruitment, training and supervision, to patient recruitment and fiscal and administrative oversight. The grant is intended to cover the cost of a part-time Program Coordinator's salary and to start the patient fund. It is expected that each Woman to Woman program will become self-funding after the first year. To ensure the success of the program, each Woman to Woman program must have the support of a physician champion in the gynecologic oncology department.
Amount:$50,000 for 1 year
Deadline: May 1, 2015
| American Society of Hematology (ASH)
Scholar Awards
ASH Scholar Awards are designed to support hematologists who have chosen a career in research by providing partial salary or other support during that critical period required for completion of training and achievement of status as an independent investigator. Applicants must be a citizen of the United States or Canada or hold a visa in the United States or Canada. Scholar Award applicants are required to be members of ASH in good standing at the time of the Letter of Intent submission, and for the duration of the Scholar Award Program.
Amount: Varies from $50,000-$150,000/ year for 2-3 years depending on experience
Deadline: LOI; May 1, 2015
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)-Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C)-Cancer Research UK-Lustgarten Foundation
Pancreatic Cancer Dream Team Translational Research Grant
AACR, on behalf of SU2C, Cancer Research UK, and the Lustgarten Foundation, calls upon members of the cancer community to contribute their ideas to the groundbreaking Stand Up to Cancer-Cancer Research UK-Lustgarten Foundation Pancreatic Cancer Dream Team Translational Research Grant. The project should include interventions in prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of pancreatic cancer, and deliver near-term patient benefit through investigation by a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional, transatlantic, synergistic Dream Team of expert investigators. The project must be designed to accelerate therapeutic application to the clinic (i.e., lead to patient involvement within 2-3 years from the beginning of the grant). Each Team will consist of a Dream Team Leader, a Dream Team Co-leader, one of whom should be expert in translational research, no more than four additional Dream Team Principals, and at least two Advocates. At least one member, the Leader, Co-leader or a Principal, must be from an institution within the United Kingdom. No Dream Team will have more than one Leader or Principal from any given institution at the time of their initial appointment on the Team. No more than two Leaders or Principals may be from affiliated institutions.
Amount: $12,000,000 over 3 years
Deadline: LOI; May 6, 2015
Ovarian Cancer Research Fund (OCRF)
Program project Development Grant
OCRF is requesting Letters of Intent for the 2016 Program Project Development Grant. The purpose of this grantmaking program is to provide funds for ovarian cancer research projects that may involve several investigators within one institution or collaborations between groups in multiple institutions. The primary review criteria will be the likelihood that the investigators can leverage this funding to compete successfully for an NCI or DOD funded program project grant, SPORE or similar award in the future.
Amount: $300,000/ year for 3 years
Deadline: LOI; May 8, 2015
Ovarian Cancer Research Fund (OCRF)
Liz Tilberis Early Career Award
The Liz Tilberis Early Career Award is for junior faculty with a strong commitment to an investigative career in the field of ovarian cancer research. The intent of these awards is to support a substantial time commitment to research and academic endeavors in ovarian cancer. Liz Tilberis awards will not be granted to individuals who hold similar junior investigator awards from other funding agencies or foundations. The applicant and the institution must certify that at least 75% of the scholar's time will be dedicated to ovarian cancer research.
Amount: $150,000/ year for 3 years
Deadline: LOI; May 8, 2015
Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF)
'A' Awards
The 'A' Award is a three-year grant designed for the early career scientist who wants to establish their career in pediatric oncology research. The ideal applicant has an original project that is not currently being funded. Demonstration of outstanding mentorship and a future commitment to pediatric cancer investigation are critical components of a successful application. Institutional commitment to the career of the applicant is also expected. A minimum of 75% of the applicant's time during the 'A' Award period must be allocated as protected time for all research activities. This percentage of time includes both 'A' activities and the applicant's other research responsibilities. Applicants holding NIH K08, K99, R00, or R01 awards are not eligible to apply. Applicants MAY have research grants from other funding sources during the 'A' Award period, but there must be clear documentation of mechanisms to avoid scientific and budgetary overlap. Applicants currently holding an ALSF 2014 Young Investigator Award or who are Center of Excellence Scholars are not eligible, as well as applicants currently holding ALSF's Innovation, Reach, Phase I/II Infrastructure or Epidemiology grants are not eligible to apply for the 2015 'A' Award.
Amount: $150,000/ year for 3 years
Deadline: May 22, 2015
Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF)
Reach Awards
Reach Grants are designed to move hypothesis-driven research toward the clinic. A successful application will identify an unmet clinical need relevant to the care of patients with pediatric cancer and describe how the work performed will allow for the translation of hypothesis-driven research to the clinic keeping broader clinical testing and implementation in view. The purpose of the Reach Grant is to advance ALSF's mission to find cures and better treatments for childhood cancers by providing support to move hypothesis-driven research into the clinic. Significant barriers exist that impede the translation of innovative and important ideas to the clinic. The Reach Grant seeks to remove one of these barriers by providing support for important pre-clinical projects that are necessary to move a study from the pre-clinical arena into a clinical trial. Thus, the goal of this award is to support selected "late translational" studies needed to ultimately initiate a clinical trial. Preference will be given to those research projects which, if funded, will likely result in the initiation of a clinical trial two to three years from the start of the project. Primary applicants may be Assistant, Associate or Professor level investigators who demonstrate a track record of discovery, investigation and external funding.
Amount: $125,000/ year for 2 years
Deadline: May 30, 2015
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Non-Federal Funding-Fellowships
Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation (PCF)
Emerging Investigator Fellowship Grant
Emerging Investigator Fellowship Grants are designed to support Post-Doctoral Fellowships and Clinical Investigator training for emerging pediatric cancer researchers to pursue exciting research ideas. Applicants must have completed two years of their fellowship, or not more than two years as a junior faculty instructor or assistant professor at the start of the award period.
Amount: $50,000 for 1 year
Deadline: May 1, 2015
Ovarian Cancer Research Fund (OCRF)
Ann Schreiber Mentored Investigator Award
The Ann Schreiber Mentored Investigator Award (formerly the Ann Schreiber Research Training Programs of Excellence Award) provides funding for trainees who are working under the supervision of a mentor who is a recognized leader in the field of ovarian cancer research. Applicants must be clinical fellows (Gynecologic Oncology, Medical Oncology), or Postdoctoral. At least 90% effort should be devoted to research during the tenure of the OCRF award.
Amount: $75,000/ year got 1-2 years
Deadline: LOI; May 8, 2015
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Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF)
Young Investigator Awards
PCF champions human capital investment to fast-forward solutions for prostate cancer with the ultimate goal of ending death and suffering from prostate cancer.PCF welcomes applications from the global community. Applications are encouraged from early-career basic scientists, medical oncologists, pathologists, urologists, radiologists, radiation oncologists, public health experts, bioinformaticians, bioengineers, or professionals from any other field that could contribute to the end of prostate cancer.Applicant may hold title of Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Instructor, Research Associate, Assistant Professor, or equivalent.Applicant should have received no more than $200,000 in current direct research funding from all sources including institutional funds. Investigators who have specifically received young investigator research support from the NCI, NIH, or DoD are still qualified and very much encouraged to apply.
Amount:$75,000/ year for 3 years
Deadline: June 3, 2015
Worldwide Cancer Research (formerly known as AICR)
International Cancer Research Fellowships
The International Cancer Research Fellowship provides support for outstanding young investigators who want to establish an independent research group at a new institution. Fellowships are designed to support fundamental or translational cancer research. The research projects may include some clinical studies, but these should be a relevant aspect of the research proposed. Research projects that are mostly clinical will not be accepted. Applicants are encouraged to take up the fellowship at a new institution, chosen because it will provide a good environment for their research. Applications to remain at the same institution will only be considered where there is an exceptional justification. Consideration will be given to those where their career has been affected either by a late start, or by interruption for personal or family reasons. The fellowships are not available for anyone appointed to a tenured or tenure-track research position.
Amount: £250,000 for 1-2 years
Deadline: June 30, 2015
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